The spider has since been taken in by enthusiast Jack Casson from Hartlepool, whose girlfriend named her Bessie.

The arachnid in question is a Macrothele calpeiana, or Spanish funnel-web spider, and gave folks quite a fright when they saw ...

A new type of spider, nicknamed the ‘big boy’, has officially been discovered in Australia- and immediately became one of the deadliest arachnids in the world. The Sydney funnel-back spider ...

A 1989 description of the species from the British Arachnological Society called it ‘Europe’s largest spider’, and also being ...